- "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. . . ." Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "These pages will be our memory until she draws her last breath in my arms and I take her with me to the open sea, where the deep currents flow, to sink with her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us." The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- "Soon afterward, like figures made of steam, father and son disappear into the crowd of the Ramblas, their steps lost forever in the shadow of the wind." The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- "'My dear,' replied Valentine, 'has not the Count just told us that all human wisdom is contained in the words 'Wait and hope!'" The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
- "He looks instead, the abbot thinks, as if all the world is before him." The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
- "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
- "'Well, I'm back,' he said." The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
- "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- "I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS." The Book Thief Mark Zusak
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